This is Michael J. Fox’s sanctuary – a bucolic retreat in the lush farmlands of Connecticut, far from the madding crowds of Manhattan.

Having effectively retired from screens big and small, the beloved actor plans to spend the lion’s share of his time here on this 88-acre spread with his wife, actress Tracy Pollan, and their three children.

The “Spin City” episode airing May 24 on ABC will mark Fox’s final appearance on the hit sitcom, coming 16 months after he made public his battle with Parkinson’s disease.

While he will continue lobbying for a cure for Parkinson’s, Fox, 38, also wants time and space to focus on his own battle with the crippling disease.

“You hit your 30s and you realize all this running around and stuff is not what you want – what you’re looking for is peace,” Fox told The Post recently.

“When you’re younger you’re looking for joy but that gets too exhausting and you just want a little peace.”

The Connecticut refuge, featured in the June issue of Architectural Digest, is modeled on a home that Fox fell in love with at the age of 10.

That house, on an island in British Columbia, featured a huge open space into which all the smaller rooms flowed, with a second-floor gallery on three sides.

“I’d never seen anything like it,” Fox tells the magazine. “When I asked the lady who lived there why they’d built it that way, she said, ‘I wanted to stand in the middle of the room, call out my children’s names and have them be able to hear – and answer – me from any room in the house.’

“Something about that struck me as a great idea. I never forgot it.”

In 1997, the couple – who also own an apartment on Fifth Avenue – had a similarly designed house built on lush farmland adjacent to Pollan’s parents’ farm.

Their home in the country is light, airy and uncluttered – just right for a man who, after 17 years in the spotlight, has surely earned the right to some peace.